But former Miss Universe Australia Tegan Martin, 24, revealed that she was branded as being 'too fat' to compete on reality TV show Australia's Next Top Model.

On Tuesday night's episode of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! the Maxim cover girl explained to fellow campers that competing in a beauty pageant was her only option for breaking into the modelling industry.

Shocking! Former Miss Universe Australia Tegan Martin, 24, revealed that she was branded as being 'too fat' to compete on reality TV show Australia's Next Top Model

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Pageant life: On Tuesday night's episode of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Tegan explained to fellow campers that competing in a beauty pageant was her only option for breaking into the modelling industry

'The only thing you can do [to launch a modelling career] is next Top Model or Miss Universe Australia,' she explained.

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'I was too fat for Next Top Model. They just said, like, they made out like I was too commercial.'

Tegan, who said she once suffered from a 'borderline eating disorder', later added: 'I have always had curves like boobs and a bum. And that is why when I lived in Paris I had to, like, starve myself to work.'

Say what? 'I was too fat for Next Top Model. They just said, like, they made out like I was too commercial,' Tegan said.

During Sunday night's hotly-anticipated season premiere of the show, the blonde bombshell came face-to-face with the extremely small portions available for dinner.

'I know I'm a model, but I need more food than that,' she said, aghast, after turning her nose up at the small bags of rice, beans and oats presented to her.

'Hopefully I don't get too hungry. If it's that time of the month and I've had no food, I'd say the other contestants would rather face a wild lion than Tegan,' she also said of the food supply.

Tough gig: 'The only thing you can do [to launch a modelling career] is next Top Model or Miss Universe Australia,' she explained

Tegan left her pageant queen days behind her in favour of a more risqué public image when she graced the cover of lads' magazine Maxim in May last year.

She recently debuted her new boyfriend, Rugby Union player Sam Croke, at the Dally M Awards in September.

The couple's romance comes after Tegan's split from her long-term beau, Angus Hood, in late 2015.

'When I lived in Paris I had to, like, starve myself to work': Tegan said she once suffered from a 'borderline eating disorder'